Final Treasure Hunter for 2012

It's the last time we'll play Treasure Hunter until next year and let me tell you, the Mystery Clue Writer seems to be showing no mercy after we failed to get to the treasure last Saturday!

Here is the first clue and let the brainstorming begin.

"The prismatic ID is OTT. Buchanan’s large advance irritates who’s society? What begins with a reversed Sound Clue, the innocent puzzle answer in triplicate and then thanks Dad becomes common.The slave, work and seismic recordings direct you to your clue."

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Barney...you may be right with Colin Buchanan... A large advance is a breakthrough and Galahs in the Gidgee was the first album released by Colin Buchanan in 1991. Produced by John Kane for the ABC Records label, the album was considered Buchanan's breakthrough album, earning him several Australian Country Music Award nominations and his first winning award for New Talent of the Year for the album.....Not sure if this helps??? Wow! Hope someone has put some of this together by now, but would not be surprised if some of you clever bloggers have. Good Luck Hunters!

Just had another thought, Paterson Station is where the RAIL MOTOR SOCIETY AND MUSEUM is based. The signal lights at a railway station are a form of Prism maybe the Dreaded Red Envelope is going to be attached to a railway signal at Paterson Railway Station over the top of the railway platform. This has got to be Plan "Z" and probably another one of my wild guesses.

Paul, Now I'm really stretching things and coming out of left field again. But you could get "SON" for Paterson from the phrase "The Innocent puzzle answer in Triplicate" From the old TV show "MY THREE SONS" as the characters were always appearing to be innocent or naive.

There is a COMMUNITY (society) ART SHOW (Carol) in the ROSARY PARK Catholic School in Branxton, which is in STATION Street.

I think the sequence in the middle could be a reference to the Rosary sequence of prayers. The first one is the Lords Prayer (Paul), the second is Hail Marys. Mary could be described as innocent and, with a bit of artistic licence, Hail Mary could be something yelled when one solves a difficult puzzle! Not sure about triplicate, as my brains trust (wikipedia) says that there are ten hail marys. The third prayer is Glory be to the Father (thanks Dad). Becomes common could be PARK.

nice thinking yurself Paul! Since my copy of the song was off a collection of Christmas songs I didn't think about the old "b-side" aspect of it! Reversing the start of "noster" does get son, but that's two reversals... and not sure how Paterson ties in, didn't come across that in the reading I did on the art show

seems there is the Branxton Community Art Show on this weekend, at the Rosary Park Catholic School on Station St Branxton. That seems to tick a few boxes. It also has a very colourful logo that could fit with the "prismatic ID is OTT"

Nice work on the sound clue, Carol. The only thing I can come up with from that part of the clue is that it might be a reference to Paterson, possibly the township, the river or a street or road.

The "reversed sound clue" could mean the B-side of the original vinyl record of the song "Little Saint Nick", which was "The Lord's Prayer". In the Latin version, this prayer begins with "Pater Noster...", which gives the "Pater" bit, but don't know where the "son" part comes in.

Slave, Work and Seismic could all have the word Station after them. The recording on a station would direct people on to a train... this is the last show after all and we should be expecting something unusual!

after hearing the sound clue again thanks to Jill I think it is "Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys (so glad I had that in the Christmas playlist last year now!). I think "what begins" is telling us to take the first letters from the song title, so LSN, and then reversing it for NSL.

Sound clue was Beach Boys and I think it was Little Old Lady From Pasadena.
Could Buchanan be a ref to Colin Buchanan? Only other Buchanan I know is old time Hollywood character actor Edgar Buchanan who played the grandfather in Petticoat Junction (my wife asks how I can remember such minutiae from my youth but can't remember to tell her that our daughter rang and could she ring back)
It's not the winning it's the struggle Robert. :)

If OTT suggests Over The Top With Jim is coupled with Buchanan, American pre-Civil War President James Buchanan is suggested. His only notable action appears to be the Ostend Manifesto permitting the forcible purchase of Cuba from Spain. Can anything be made of that?

Seismic tomograms use earthquake vibrations to produce a 3D map of the Earth's interior. Tomago?
Correct English would be "irritate whose society?" I think reinforcing the Dr Who (or The Who) link.
A common could be a field.
Just a few thoughts.

Agree with OTT being Over The Top, but whether that is what we need for the clue is another question!

to me "who's society" sets off Doctor Who bells in my head, he being a Timelord from Galifrey. Think we may need to figure out the Buchanan bit before we can really make use of that though. I think the sound clue was Beach Boys but I was so busy trying to get the clue down I didn't catch the words to try & figure out what the song was! Hopefully it will get put on the blog so we can work on that more. Seismic recordings are on the Richter scale.

I had also thought we need to connect slave, work and seismic recordings...seismograms? slave labour? work force? work load? work out? work face? working bee? work-to-rule?slave driver? AAARGH! Can't get it. Seismograph? Seismometer? Help?

Just random thoughts ..no help at all really...OTT Over the Top ...with Jim??? Types of prisms? Why is Sound Clue capitalised? and finally...drum roll please...Thanks Dad....gives....TA DA! Absolutely nothing from me. Sorry!